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Emirates To Ditch Paper Fom Planes
22/07/08
The Emirates have decided to axe its printed in-flight magazines, newspapers and entertainment guides to save up to one tonne of weight on each Airbus A380 "super jumbo" flight.
In the first signs of the global credit crunch/global recession hitting the region, the move from Emirates designed to help reduce fuel emissions and is part of its cost-cutting measures.
To compensate for the lack of magazines, Emirates plans to feed similar content into its in-flight entertainment system, including news, features and information. The airline expects to make a reduction of two kilograms of paper weight per seat to substantially reduce each super jumbo's load.
Tim Clark, Emirates’ president, said banning paper would lighten the aircraft by a tonne. “It’s 2kg per seat, and 500 seats - a worthwhile saving,” he said. “We are doing it because of fuel prices and because of the environment.”
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Posted by TheDubaiLife.com on 22/07/08 at 01:37 AM
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Sustainable desert cities the way forward for Dubai
16/07/08
Green is the new black , it is Vouge to be 'Green' even better if you are 'Eco' too it's the buzz word of a more Environmentally conscious world. Dubai would be the last place you would put in the same sentance as sustainable City. Dubai devours anything Chic and hip but doesn't take too kindly to many other things, however not one but 2 concept cities for the UAE have been created by local architect firm X-Architects.
The first project is known as Garden City described on their own website as
"The Garden was born in the desert. An isolated anamoly in an otherwise dry and uninhabitable environment, they become sources of life, allowing for settlements to develop, and inhabitation of the hostile weather possible." It will take life from the Desert and use the power of the heat and sun to power the City.
The second such development also designed by X-Architects named XERITOWN , and this one is a little more developed in terms of it'd design and planning. This city has been widely reported on other blogs one such blog is Jetson Green and a quote from that site sums up the ethos of Xeritown.
"Designed by X-Architects, Xeritown was designed, first, with the environment in mind and, second, with environmental attributes. Flat circles will hang over street walkways and photovoltaics will be placed on the circles to collect solar energy. A major aim of the project will also be to conserve ecological resources such as water, soil, flora, and fauna.
The city will only have two lanes for vehicles, so mass transportation will be the major mode of movement for inhabitants. Looking at the images below, you can imagine a realistic Xeritown with walkable, lively streets and people meandering among cafes, shops, shade, and benches. "
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Posted by Editor on 16/07/08 at 01:59 AM
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Foggy Dubai from the burj Dubai
15/07/08
Sometimes pictures speak louder than words... enjoy! Apparently taken from the Burj Dubai , found on Flickr. To see a larger version click on the photo below.
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Posted by Editor on 15/07/08 at 03:10 AM
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UK yob culture on it's way to Dubai?
14/07/08
Go to any UK City Center on a Friday night and you will be confronted with undignified behaviour by any standards, drunk young and old wandering the streets in a daze and causing mayhem wherever they go. This is what the UK is known for in Europe and around the world now, the binge drinking, the street fighting and the whole "good night out". It's nothing to be proud of and even the nay sayers in the UK are now admitting they have real problem on their hands.
However it now seems this culture could be on it's way to Dubai , not to say the hedonistic lifestyle wasn't already here. However the recent arrest of Michelle Palmer for allegedly having sex on one of the beaches in Dubai as well as assaulting a police officer have brought the whole issue to the fore. Ms Palmer faces 6 years in prison for her "fumble in the dark" and the Schizophrenic nature of Dubai's current plight will once again be thrust into the limelight.
A plight so precarious that even the media outside of Dubai are now picking up on it , the UK paper the Sunday Telegraph run the story about Ms Palmer as you would expect her being an ex-pat from the UK. However the more interesting point of note in the article was how many ex-pats spend their Friday afternoons "brunching", whilst the local Muslim population go to the Mosque for Friday prayers and spend the rest of the day with their families the ex-pats head off to all-you-can-eat-and-drink brunch sessions at various Hotels.
A quote from the paper says it all: "Brunch can get very messy," admitted Hayley Monaghan, 23, from Liverpool, working in Dubai as a hostess for a local airline, one of many well-groomed young women heading into the Double Decker on Friday, where the advertised "brunch" lasts from midday right through to 3am. "You can get all you want to eat and drink for 150 dirhams, which is only about £20."
For those who would call these harmless eat-all-you-can buffets then think again as it was exactly one such even that lead to Ms Palmer being the worst for wear, before her sex on the beach party trick. So remorseful is Ms Palmer that she has quickly married the man she was caught in the act with to try and get some level of clemency from the judge. The lucky groom being Vince Acors, who has won the star prize of a sham wedding. This is not the first time Ms Palmer has been close to tying the knot as her ex-fiance in the UK said that he had dumped her because she wasn't adventurous enough, well she has certianlty made up for that now, it's really sad when women are expected to act in such a undignified manner.
I will not comment on the possible outcome of the court case this is not the time or the place.
What I will say is that there are 2 things Dubai needs to do and that is get a grip of reality. It has an old culture which doesn't stem from liberal values that the ex-pats bring but from more traditional Islamic ones. It is high time that Dubai stopped trying to be all things to all men. It is impossible and ludicrous for anyone to think that you can allow the things that corrupt a society like the UK to exist in Dubai and it NOT to have an adverse affect on the society.
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Posted by Editor on 14/07/08 at 02:47 AM
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Fountains For Dubai!
08/07/08
If it is Dubai then we must know it can only be the biggest, the brashest, largest, most expensive and avant garde thing you can come to expect - and this is no different?
Costing a whopping $281 million, the new fountains will shoot water 450 feet into the air and pump 22,000 gallons of water through it at any given time. 6,600 lights and 50 projectors will shoot video and images onto the spray as its in the air
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Posted by TheDubaiLife.com on 08/07/08 at 12:21 AM
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The world's most expensive cocktail
02/07/08
Sometimes I feel like people in Dubai and indeed Dubai as a city is living in "The Matrix" someone is sooner or later bound to tell us that all this isn't true and we should pop the pill and wake up. Why do I say this? well there is showing off your wealth which is fine I guess , I can stomach that (just about). Then there is saying to the world look what we built , ignoring the fact that the poor people that built it will never get the praise they deserve, I can cope with that too (just about).
However when Dubai , comes to be known to be the place for the most expensive cocktail in the world them I think there is a need to make a point about saying , What the hell ?. Quoting my source [News.com.au]
"ON the 27th floor of what is billed as the world's most luxurious hotel is a glass cabinet holding what is said to be the world's most expensive cocktail.
So far only two people have paid the 27,321 dirham – 27 marks the number of floors in Dubai's lavish Burj Al Arab, and 321 its height in metres – for the pleasure of sipping one glass of this 55-year-old Macallan single malt scotch whisky. "
So let's get this straight someone has paid £3,729.52 ($7,438.13) to have ONE glass of whisky, if that isn't strange in a Muslim country where alcohol is not that freely available then I don't know what is. Beyond this point is the fact that someone pays that much money for a drink when there are people in the same world (remember the Matrix reference was only a reference we ARE not in a parallel universe) dying to get a clean glass of water. Sometimes I wish I was in the Matrix then at least I could make it all go away.
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Posted by Editor on 02/07/08 at 03:41 AM
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Dubai the unfaithful temptress
10/06/08
Dubai is famed for it’s visitors the many thousands of people that flirt with the damsel that is Dubai for a few brief days or hours. Dubai being the mistress that it is, will inevitably leave a mark on all that encounter her. Some will fall in love with her and forever yearn to come back and see her again, others will just be smitten by her and end up staying for good. There are some who will for the rest of their lives rue the day they ever laid eyes on Dubai, for them she is nothing but an unfaithful temptress.
Mohammad Asif is one such man, he is the kind of man that seems to for some strange reason like to flirt with danger and most of it is off the pitch. He has now been in the clutches of the Dubai authorities for almost a week or more now, having been accused of bringing a banned substance into Dubai. As we all know from the Grooverider case Dubai is getting tough on this kind of thing, reports have said that the substance was ½ gram of Hashish in which case Mr Asif should be getting used to the 4 walls of his prison cell as he may be staying a while.
What the hell he was doing going from India (where he had been playing in the IPL) to Dubai , when in fact he was meant to be going to Pakistan is something I will never understand. I am not sure if flights from India to Pakistan operate, but it sometimes makes me wonder what is it about Dubai that attracts these high profile people to her especially when they pay no attention to the rules upon which she operates.
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Posted by Editor on 10/06/08 at 03:16 AM
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Brad Pitt Designs Dubai Hotel
03/06/08
We've always secretly known how much Dubai's building scene and architectural frenzy of recent times likes to think of itself in the realms of Hollywood, but getting A-Lister Brad Pitt to design a hotel is surely getting ridiculous.
We at TheDubaiLife would laugh if it wasn't so funny. According to the property company, Zabeel Properties, behind it the project will be "socially conscious" and a world leader in environmental sustainability, even though it will eventually end up as "800-room luxury hotel and adjoining leisure complex, and will play host to star-studded events and awards ceremonies". That a contradiction in terms to say the least.
Of course Mr Angelina Jolie is adamant about his part in the process: "Whilst acting is my career, architecture is my passion. Selecting this development as my first major construction project has been a simple decision," he said. "We will be unveiling precise plans in the next few months, but you can expect something that is not only stunning to look at, but will also be an incredible attraction to visit or stay at."
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Posted by TheDubaiLife.com on 03/06/08 at 01:27 AM
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Dubai Bans Smoking For Kids
01/06/08
Dubai banned the sale of tobacco to anyone under the age of 20 this week, and what's more barred young people from public areas in which smoking is allowed. The announcement was made in public advertisements as part of a "Youth Without Tobacco" campaign.
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Posted by TheDubaiLife.com on 01/06/08 at 10:35 PM
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Cross Dressers Arrested
27/05/08
Here is Reuters reporting that the Dubai Police have started arresting people who cross dress. We all know that the underbelly of Dubai is somewhat unseemly. Indeed, lift the craggy rock and many people, tourists, decent ordinary hard working Emiratis (there must be some that work hard for a living in the UAE, and not live off their oil barrel millions and soak up the sun?) are aghast at the situation at Dubai!
"We have noted an emerging trend of men dressed as women and vice versa in the UAE markets and streets," the Khaleej Times daily quoted Dubai Police Chief Dhahi Khalfan as saying. However, what is even more worrying is where these people are being arrested: "Several men in women's dresses and make-up have already been arrested from shopping malls and residential buildings," he said.
Shopping malls? Where next, I wonder?
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Posted by TheDubaiLife.com on 27/05/08 at 03:00 PM
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